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calling upon Federal agencies, the States, and others to 

 make the maximum possible effort under existing law to 

 implement the objectives of the proposed national policy 

 in the interim before the National Estuarine Management 

 Program can be activated. 



ROLE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INTERESTS 



Achievement of balanced development, conservation, and preservation 

 of the resources of the estuarine and coastal zone for multiple 

 purposes will become a reality only if the public and private 

 interests in the nongovernmental sector want and demand it. This 

 means that these interests now must actively seek the establishment 

 of the National Estuarine Management Program and, thereafter, give 

 continuing attention and support to its administration at all levels 

 of government. It means too that these interests must themselves 

 actively participate in the administration of that program by taking 

 part in the preparation of use and management plans for specific 

 estuaries and coastal areas and through research and education, 

 experimentation with new management concepts, their own programs to 

 acquire and administer important sites within the zone to protect 

 them from undesirable development, and continuing evaluation and 

 criticism of governmental programs. Compliance with adopted plans 

 in the activities which these interests conduct on their own in the 

 estuarine and coastal zone also is absolutely essential. 



